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  • On June 1789

    On June 1789

    On june 1789, National Assembly in the Jeu de Paume, ball or tennis court (Jacques-Louis David, 1791).
  • On 14 July 1789

    On 14 July 1789

    Bastille Day, the beginning of the Revolution ( Jean-Pierre Houel, 1789)
  • On september 1791

    On september 1791

    Louis XVI was forced to sign the Constitution and the constutional monarchy was estabilished. A few months earlier, in June, the king tried to flee from Paris. He was caught in Varennes ( the arres of louis XVI and his family at Varennes, Thomas Falcon Mashall 1854)
  • The national Cobention began in 1791

    The national Cobention began in 1791

    It grew more radical over time. That period was know as The Terror and it reached its peak during the Robespierre dictartorship (Maximilien Rebespierre, 1790).
  • On September 1792,

    On September 1792,

    The French Republic was established, with the symbols that endure to this day. Marseillaise became the national anthem in 1795.
  • On January 1793

    On January 1793

    Louis XVI was guillotined, acussed of treason.